Holdredge Wines

Holdredge Wines is a small, family owned and operated winery in the Russian River Valley of Healdsburg, California. We produce only small lots from vineyards we feel reflect the quality and diversity of Sonoma County's appellations. We also grow Pinot Noir and Syrah in our family's vineyard in the Russian River Valley. Both our farming practices and our winemaking philosophy emphasize a personal, hand-crafted approach.
– Description from
mriskic

Crazily fragrant with soaring florals, spiced orange rind, cranberry, and tart cherry aromatics. This enters the mouth with a firm burst of ripe fruit delivering plenty of texture early on but remaining tense and vibrant on the palate, with lovely zest...

Very perfumed on the nose with layers of sweet spices, violets, ginseng, smoke, a little licorice and pollen. In the mouth this is a little candied, delivering sweet raspberries and maraschino cherry flavors up front in a polished, plump, easy drinking...

A little stemmy and floral on a nose that is a bit low and yet quite perfumed with a hint of peppery spice; high toned and showing a touch of oak. This is surprisingly round in the mouth and even a little slick in an appealing way, offering a broad yet...

This smells quite ripe, with hints of plummy fruit and candied blueberries on the nose paired with a fine cinnamon edge and a little stemmy floral note. On entry, one senses more of an oak imprint here than with the other bottlings. The style is smooth...

Fleshy fruit on the nose is framed by a hint of pencil lead, sharp with an almost spricotty freshness and sweetness to the perfumed red cherry and strawberry fruit. This is almost a bit soft in the mouth, but just when you think the broad, mouth-fillin...

This has a stunning nose, high-toned and floral, with spicy, lightly smoky accents to the earthy small berried fruits that offer up a nuanced beet root note. Soft yet structured, there is lovely depth here with a rich front edge followed by nice nuanc...

Cola, chalk, animal fur and a touch of smoke all top the core of wild cherry fruit found on the nose. In the mouth this is smooth and polished, with a seductive texture that is both rich and supple. The mid-palate is packed with dark berry fruit framed...

This offers up a decidedly dark fruit profile on the nose with hints of sour plum, earth and deep brambly fruit. Very spicy and complex with notes of leather, gunflint, tar and spice all adding complexity. Rich and polished in the mouth with a fine, e...

Sweet and a touch overtly woody at first with a bit of Grenache like garrigue, dirt, red flowers, a touch of toast and hot iron over a reticent core of very fresh cherry. With air really gains Pinot typicity with a dusty minerality and subtle redwood a...

Foxall came up yesterday and we visited with Mike Smith. Mike emailed me the night before asking me to come by early as they were racking and blending some '13 Sauv Blanc. Needless to say I got a taste of a freshly blended SB for a private label of one of his growers in Napa.After the Foxall posse arrived Mike poured2012 Ancillary Cellars Suncha...
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Tonight I had tastes of a bunch of wines at the Sonoma Farm Bureau Crab and Wine Feed. Mostly basic SoCo bottlings. Balletto Syrah, Dutton Goldfield PN, Taft St PN, Russian River Vineyards Zin and PN, Kokomo PN and a few others. Ran into John Holdredge and chatted for a bit. During dinner he stopped by my table and poured me a glass of his 2012 ...
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Pinot noir has become the great alternative. When you don’t want to give another big red wine as a gift it opens up a world of possibilities. Immediately appreciated by name alone, Pinot seems to have developed a certain cachet as the thinking man’s red wine, though there is little evidence to support that. Perhaps it comes from the history that...
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"Wow... Foxy, you have very girly handwriting!"ROFLMy Secret Santa ... a will-call pickup for me at Holdredge Wines in Healdsburg. When I arrived at the winery Carri Holdredge was there unloading sytro-shippers from her car. She said I had a very generous Secret Santa. On the countertop in the tasting from was a bottle of wine in a Christmas b...
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Had a great Thanksgiving. Spent the entire day (and the previous evening) cooking and everything turned out great.I baked pies: Did Yams, Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes, Wine Glazed Brussels Sprouts, Gravy from the pan drippings etc.. Stuffed the bird with some great aromatics after a 36hr wet brine... And let her smoke away... Until it was just righ...
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So, do you have your wine planned out yet for the Thanksgiving meal? I'm going a bit off course this year as I am smoking my turkey so I'm probably going to go heavy on Syrah rather than Pinot Noir. But that could change based on input from the guests.First off I'll likely pop a 2010 Copain Baker Ranch Syrah as it shows quite Pinot-like and I ha...
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It’s a great thing when things just come together. Earlier this year I had planned a trip to California to do some tasting but it had to be postponed. When I went to reschedule I noticed a thread in the Snooth Forum that was looking for people to join in a West Coast Pinot Noir Throw Down. I wasn’t sure what exactly that entailed but I am alway...
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Back in July, I proposed a West Coast Pinot Noir throwdown on the Snooth forums. In what was a pot-luck twist on one of Gregory dal Piaz’s “Drink My Wine” events, I suggested that any Snooth forum posters could congregate in my neck of the woods—Oakland, California—and bring a bottle of their favorite Pinot Noir from whatever region they think ...
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That was a blast. I want to thank everyone who made it possible with a tip of the hat to Mr and Mrs Foxy!Great hospitality, food, and friends, and we also had some wine. I didn't include the Patz and Hall wines in my WOTN voting since they had so many entrants in the line-up, but the Burnside and Moses-Hall were both excellent and the Sonoma Coa...
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